Quotes About Shackleton

albatrosses on the nest. Shackleton went back for the shotgun, and they killed one adult and one chick.

Shackleton estimated the shelf ice off the Palmer Peninsula—the nearest known land—to be 182 miles WSW of them.

Shackleton told Macklin that since the party now had a fair supply of meat, his dogs would not be killed

Shackleton made the decision on the spot: they would abandon the effort to reach Clarence or Elephant Island

Before he left, Shackleton ordered the three youngest puppies killed

several men had strongly urged Shackleton to risk this one desperate dash back to Ocean Camp

It was as if they had suddenly emerged into infinity. They had an ocean to themselves, a desolate, hostile vastness. Shackleton thought of the lines of Coleridge: Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea.

Antarctica is a desert, and fresh snowflakes falling are as rare as raindrops in the Sahara. Most blizzards simply sweep old, needle-like crystals of drift from one place to another. They are really dust storms in the cold. Shackleton

I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.